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Show Good Roads Are Called Great Aid to Churches "Where roads are best churches are strongest and civilization bears its choicest fruit ; where roads are poorest churches are weakest and ignorance, poverty and crime abound. This is the outstanding thought In an article written by Dr. S. M. Johnson, former pastor of the Austin Presbyterian Presby-terian church at Chicago and now director di-rector of the Lee Highway association. Doctor Johnson, in Ills article, points out that the modern highway will do as much for a rural community as a railroad, school or church, serving as a means to bring the people together and promoting the consolidated school, the union church and the civic center. These, he shows, result in more regular attendance at church and school and better-paid preachers and teachers foi the rural communities. |